What's the difference between lounger and recliner?

Lounger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who lounges; ar idler.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thirty British tourists were among those killed in an attack in which many people were shot as they lay on sun loungers in swimsuits.
  • (2) The lower level rooms each have shady balconies and white-cushioned loungers on which to doze before a dip in the attractive pool.
  • (3) To his left, outside the Imperial Marhaba hotel, dead and dying tourists were lying amid bloody overturned sun loungers.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Empty sun loungers on the beach in Sousse.
  • (5) After 38 people were killed on their sun loungers , by the pool and in the hotel lobby, the Foreign Office changed its advice about the country to warn that more attacks are possible.
  • (6) Tony Blair is lying on a sun lounger soaked with the blood of hundreds of thousands of murdered Hutus.
  • (7) Indeed, despite the wider political drama, Germans continue to place their towels on Greek sun-loungers in droves.
  • (8) Forests of thatched parasols dotted near-deserted beaches, loungers remained stacked in orderly ranks.
  • (9) The restaurant-bar spills outside through glass doors to a wide terrace but best of all are the three top-floor family suites with huge decked terraces, sun-loungers and sweeping views.
  • (10) Even the designer sun-loungers around the pool’s edge, normally draped with prone “morning after” bodies, are half-empty.
  • (11) There's a lovely pool, plus spacious steam room, sauna and Jacuzzi, mosaic seating area with loungers, and poolside cafe.
  • (12) Eighty per cent of the people at that hotel are old.” Ben-Mohan ran to the scene, arriving to find the dead, wounded and terrified huddled amid upturned sun loungers.
  • (13) The sun-loungers are also being wheeled out across the UK, with Asda selling double the amount of suncare products it did last year, while sales of sun cream leapt 10% at Superdrug last weekend.
  • (14) Assuming Bayern return there, however, anyone who wants to look round might be faced with insurmountable security issues, particularly given the high-profile lapse in 1996, when a tabloid journalist managed to sneak into the swimming pool and place towels on all the sun loungers.
  • (15) Worried that the killer would return from his murderous spree to continue in the hotel, Dabbou placed a sun lounger over one wounded woman, hoping it would conceal her from the gunman.
  • (16) Once again, the concave, glazed form of the building was channelling the Nevada rays like a magnifying glass, to the extent they were melting the plastic poolside loungers and burning holes in guests' newspapers.
  • (17) What you may not know The “Walkie Scorchie” is not the first Viñoly building to raise temperatures – his Vdara hotel in Las Vegas, which also sports a concave glass facade, has melted sun loungers and singed newspapers.
  • (18) Decked terraces with stylish sun loungers look over the magnificent beach, named after its sand, so pale it's almost white.
  • (19) I went to Dubai and I remember sitting on a sun lounger and in the same hotel Sunderland were there, running up and down the beach doing fitness.
  • (20) Yet if we Britons spend our holidays hungrily gobbling up our annual quota of words and ideas from a sun lounger, doesn’t it show that, despite worrying literacy figures, we do still want to read, and learn, and explore fictional worlds?

Recliner


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, reclines.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All examinations were performed during winter on reclined relaxed subjects present for at least 10 min in a test room with controlled temperature and relative humidity (t degrees: 19.5-20.7 degrees C and RH: 47.3-60.3%).
  • (2) 50 min after each subject had consumed an amount of water equal to 1% of his body weight, he reclined on a cot.
  • (3) Surface electrodes measured electromyographic activity of the low-back extensor, hip adductor and ankle plantar-flexor muscles when the body was at 0 degree (upright) and 30 degrees (recline) relative to the vertical.
  • (4) The short-term antiorthostatic position was associated with a disordered hormonal control, reduced plasma aldosterone and enhanced plasma renin activity, as compared to the respective parameters of the reclining position.
  • (5) Patients scoring high on the Pain Control and Rational Thinking factor of the CSQ were much less functionally impaired, walked a 5 m course more rapidly and moved from a standing to a sitting or reclining position more quickly than patients scoring low on this factor.
  • (6) There are smaller innovations whose simplicity prompts the question of why they weren't introduced earlier: holders for cups separate from the pull-down meal trays, and a reclining function that pushes your backside and legs forward rather than thrusting the back of your chair into the face of the person behind.
  • (7) The Cat reclined on a pile of mattresses in his tent.
  • (8) I would recline back and listen to music, and read the paper or a book I thought would impress her.
  • (9) The patients were examined in reclined position, the head retroflected.
  • (10) In contrast, a backrest-only recline of 20 degrees causes a 25% increase in the surface shear force.
  • (11) The scapular region is from 1 to 2 deg F hotter than the sacral region for subjects reclining on Mylar.
  • (12) Specific changes were detected in the gel patterns which could be correlated with the loss of muscle function as measured by the exhaustion score (the ability of chicks to rise from a reclining position) in three experimental groups (exhaustion scores: less than 3, 10-20, greater than 30).
  • (13) The enormous amounts of activity in the subjects required the detector to be positioned at a height of 2.05 m. Subjects were required to wear disposable clothing and lie on a reclining, fiberglass chair.
  • (14) Small amounts of water and taste solutions were applied to the posterior tongue of the subject as he reclined on a dental chair.
  • (15) Within the limitations of the study (no counterbalancing of order and twice as many ABPM measures as watch measures), we found significant differences in frequency of being at home or in miscellaneous settings, in standing and reclining positions, and in mental, physical and miscellaneous activities between the two occasions.
  • (16) Subjects were seated reclining 30 degrees from upright, and respiratory muscle weakness was produced by pancuronium bromide until RC inspiratory capacity was decreased to 60% of control.
  • (17) To determine whether the left space that is neglected after right hemisphere lesions is body centered or environment centered, we asked patients with right hemisphere stroke and normal controls to report the contents of spatial arrays of objects or words, either while seated or while reclining on their side.
  • (18) Six young males, resting in a dorsal reclining position, were exposed successively to a thermoneutral environment (30 min), a cold environment (1 degrees C; cold) or thermoneutrality (control) for 120 min, and during a 60-min recovery period in thermoneutral conditions.
  • (19) Then, they exercised using a bicycle ergometer in a semi-reclining position for 45 min at 40% of maximal oxygen uptake.
  • (20) However, Rupert Murdoch was sitting in the editor’s chair while Larry reclined on the settee the other side of the room.

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